Patents by Inventor Tom Essebier

Tom Essebier has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20090199290
    Abstract: One embodiment of the application provides a method and system for receiving at a gateway device a plurality of virtual private network tunnels to be routed to a Local Area Network (LAN), routing a first portion of the plurality of virtual private network tunnels to at least one slave device coupled to the gateway device, performing IPsec processing of the first portion of the plurality of virtual private network tunnels using at least one slave device, forwarding the first portion of the plurality of virtual private network tunnels after IPsec processing to at the gateway device and routing the plurality of virtual private network tunnels to the LAN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: Secure Computing Corporation
    Inventors: David McCullough, Tom Essebier, Philip Craig